SEATTLE CANCER CARE

MODERNIZING PEOPLESOFT FOR SEATTLE CANCER CARE ALLIANCE

The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) had outgrown the system they shared with their alliance partner. The time had come to take ownership and modernize this system, applying only SCCA requirements for business process and data capture.

SCCA needed a partner to help them take on ownership of their own system, processes, and data. They turned to SpearMC for guidance.

CHALLENGE PRESENTED

Overcoming years of ‘institutionalized’ thinking, and accepting and embracing a modernized approach to transactional data capture and reporting

PROPOSED SOLUTION

Multi-phase approach to harmonize transactional data elements, modernize the financial system, and deploy enhanced business processes throughout the organization

RESULTS ACHIEVED

Modernized system with significant user adoption rate, reduced customizations, and data capture to assist in long-term business evaluation

SpearMC’s ChartField Harmonization and Business Process Redesign efforts allowed us to focus on the elemental level of data capture, with reporting needs as our end-goal in mind

THE BENEFITS OF THE SPEARMC RE-IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH

Utilizing proprietary ERP Implementation and Upgrade methodology, SpearMC understood the complexity involved in meeting SCCA’s needs. Starting with the end in mind, SpearMC articulated the data elements that were critical for transactional capture. Mapping these elements to the ChartField structure quickly defined the future state design.

This methodology also allowed for a focus on business process redesign, with the goal of customization reduction. All project team members were trained on future system functionality as well as the utilization of SpearMC’s methodology.